Apple Pay copies PayPal
Apple (NASDAQ: AMZN) is intending to raise Apple Pay’s popularity if you take a webpage away from PayPal’s playbook. On Tuesday, September 13, 2016, Apple updated its systems so enable Apple Pay users can pay online on a website.
Around 200,000 websites now support Apple Pay, Computerworld reported. To utilize the service consumers will have to get the Apple Pay button on-line.
Mac desktop and laptop users will have to authenticate all purchases; which has a finger print scan with an iPhone, or even a double talk about a Mac Watch. Which means Mac users having an Android phone will likely be at a complete loss.
Users may also have to complete their shopping in Apple’s Safari browser. Computerworld reported that the next Mac Os; Sierra, will permit customers to pay with Apple Pay with no finger print scan – after they login with an iCloud account. Since Sierra isn’t yet available, it appears like Mac users might have to buy an iPhone to travel internet shopping.
Or they are able to just use PayPal; which doesn’t require a fingerprint, or their plastic card. You have to wonder why anybody would make use of Apple’s payment solution.
Another major drawback is the fact that many major websites; like the biggest name in US online retail Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), still don’t take Apple Pay. Also refusing to look at Apple Pay could be the second largest online general merchandise retailer in the usa: Walmart.com. Since both Walmart and Amazon are pushing their unique payment solutions it can be unlikely that either of these will get on the Apple Pay bandwagon anytime soon.
Venmo Meet Siri
It appears to be if Apple Pay is not a serious threat to PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL). Instead PayPal is actually expanding to Apple; its’ Venmo money-transfer app is integrated with iOS 10.
That means Venmo users can send money using Siri and iMessage, Venmo’s blog claimed. A Venmo user may even say hey Siri send Joe $30 and this will happen.
It looks as if PayPal and never Apple may be the future of on the web and social media marketing payment. Apple Pay seems doomed to stay a market product. You have to ponder whether this means that PayPal might soon support Apple Pay.
Apple Pay Going to Japan, Russia and New Zealand
It appears to be if there might be a larger niche for Apple Pay outside the US in comparison to its home country. A theory Tim Cook seems to go along with; Fortune reported that Apple has intends to roll Apple Spend in Japan, Russia and New Zealand this fall.